Quotes of: True-things Keyword

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

H. L. Mencken

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

Richard Hatch

Not true,” said Adrian. “All guys mean the same thing when they want to ‘get to know a girl better.’ You’re a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you’d be too innocent to understand. Good thing you’ve got me here to interpret.

Bloodlines

you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

The Things They Carried

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are wor...

Vignette

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And tho...

Madeleine L'Engle

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentall...

John Green

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness, my heart still beats as the little thing...

Jennifer Hillman

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

The Complete Stories

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

Tintagel

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Wolf Hall

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

Oriana Fallaci

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Robert Fisk

True joy cannot be bought with money or found in lavish things. It's a feeling deep within the heart.

Marie Cornelio

My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.

Reid Ribble

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.

Abigail Landsbrook

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Gael Garcia Bernal